Transcending Ego is a spiritual self-deception

[Breakingthewall]

The matter is very simple and at the same time enormously difficult.

Simple: you simply sit down to meditate for two minutes and the sensation of being a self disappears, and what remains is the totality, and the totality is absolutely nothing, and this nothing is everything. It's not a self; you are that, but it's not someone or something, it's the unlimited totality, period. Then you, the self,  see with total clarity that, as a form, you are a construct that emerges. If you were to die right now, nothing would essentially change. In any case, nothing essentially changes.

Complicated: form traps you; you are form; you can't stop being form. You change form and perceive yourself as divinity, consciousness, love, God, whatever. It's still a self. The absence of self is the absence of everything, absolute emptiness, and that emptiness is everything. Extremely simple, extremely difficult

Edited 22 hours ago by Breakingthewall

[cetus]

On 1/25/2026 at 9:35 AM, Davino said:

it's God, making it such a delicious twisted self-deception to see through and a profound reconnection into self-awareness, Self-Love and innate Awake Divinity.

There has been some interesting debate about this subject lately. We often talk about ego, but what about what could be called the -truly authentic self?

[Breakingthewall]

13 hours ago, cetus said:

There has been some interesting debate about this subject lately. We often talk about ego, but what about what could be called the -truly authentic self?

I don't think that there is a true self and false self, there are different levels of self-density.

As a human being, there is always a self; the self is the perception of oneself as a self-preserving individual. Completely eliminating the self and becoming a monk who doesn't care about starving to death and doesn't perceive himself as an individual is perhaps the closest thing to no self or a self of minimal density, but what's the point of reaching that point?

The optimal approach seems to be a balance that allows you to avoid being trapped in egoic density, but also allows you to operate effectively as an individual, while still having the possibility of opening yourself to the limitless at certain times.